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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER XXXIX
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Was this Matyas a good king?
_Hungarian_.

Was Matyas Corvinus a good king?
O young man of Horncastle! he was the best and greatest that Hungary ever possessed, and, after his father, the most renowned warrior,--some of our best laws were framed by him.

It was he who organised the Hussar force, and it was he who took Vienna.

Why does your Government always send fools to represent it at Vienna?
_Myself_.

I really cannot say; but with respect to the Hussar force, is it of Hungarian origin?
_Hungarian_.


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